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Bayer Code : cvpsa

Scientific name: Crepis sancta (L.) Bornmüller


Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Crepis sancta (L.) Babcock, Lagosens sancta (L.) K.Mal , Lagosens bifida (Vis.) Koch, Lagoseris nemausensis Gouan, Hieracium santum L., Pterotheca sancta Schultz, Andryala nudicaulis Lamarck , Lagoseris macrantha (Bunge) Iljin, Pterotheca sancta (L.) C. Koch

Classification: Compositae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: Crepis sancta

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Griechischer Pippau ; ES : ; FR : crépis de Nîmes ; IT : radicchiella di Terrasanta ;

Biological type: Annual


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons obovate, sessile.

- Leaves alternate, the first ones entire the other dentate, prickly.


Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 30-50cm.

- Stems erect, pubescent, sparsely branched.

- Basal leaves in rosette, elongate, with broad-tipped blade, dentate or deeply divided, with acute segments and teeth, hairy.

- Flowers yellow in long-stalked capitule. Involucre with membranous bracts, covered with stiff and black hairs. The flowering stems are leafless.

- Fruits : achenes of 2 kinds, the outer ones with a round back and winged, the inner slender, spindle-like and smooth (4 cm).

- Risk of confusion at seedling stage with Cichorium intybus and the other species of Crepis .

- Biological type: annual.

Mistake with: Cichorium intybus , Crepis


Ecological profile (click on flags): Spain   Rare     France  Present     Italy  Present    

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